Where is your heart focused?  This is such a difficult topic that the world has developed a host of medical/psychological diagnoses to explain away or excuse our fractured capacity to focus.  Everyone screams accountability!, yet very few can truly relate to the idea of having a goal or ideal that is worth life commitment.  Accountability is nearly impossible when people are expending their energies across a wide array.  The needle and the laser are so efficient because they target all their energy at a specific point, disrupting, overcoming and penetrating the cellular structure, surface tension and forces binding together an object.  We have been distracted by so much data, so many shiny objects and so much disinformation, without the commensurate protections associated with a solid Word-knowledge based discernment mechanism, that we have little hope of not being led astray or losing focus.

For example, if you as a father are balancing your energies between trying to get ahead at work while maintaining a healthy relationship with your kids then you are in a precarious position.  Our women are rushing around trying to be the “ultimate” Mom, yet always feeling as if they are one misstep away from total disaster.  Perhaps their intuitions are truer than we estimate?  This “life balance” concept is not Christian.  This is a worldly ideal perpetuated by new age thinking that has permeated the churches.  This life balance concept places God as one of the choices, segments or voices in our lives that require a dispensation of our energy, a measure of our focus, a dose of our time and treasure.  This is obviously the clever machinations of God’s enemies, convincingly directing people’s attention toward a concept that places the reliance upon money, personal efficacy or education other than where it should naturally focus, entire dependence upon God.

God may never be reduced to simply one of equally divided focal points.  He is our focus and the rest falls accordingly into harmonic balance because of that focus.  I cringe to watch the women in our churches fall further into despair or feelings of inadequacy as they fail to compete with others who “have it all together”.  They get depressed as they desperately want to emulate the women who can keep a perfect house, have well-balanced kids, perfect devotion to God, service in the community and peaceful/supportive husbands.  This is not God’s intention.  He wants us to come to Him first and He will provide that harmony to which each of us feels called.  The enemy will always twist what God has made perfect, contorting the normal into something painful, unachievable or torture-some.  Yes we want peace, yes we want harmony and life balance, but these things cannot be achieved through our own “Works” based mentality.  Surrender to God and He will make straight your path.  To more appropriately use His Word, ” But seek Ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.”

If I want accountability then I must focus on one point in my life, am I fully surrendered and focused upon seeking God?  If the answer to this question provides any other apparent focus in front of our elevated above “laser” focus upon God’s Kingdom, then I have allowed distraction to enter my thinking.  Above all else I must remain “accountable” to God.  I must not depend on my own understanding of things but in all my ways acknowledge Him and He will direct my path.  Have you ever met someone in the church that wanted to leave their spouse, due to any number of reasons, who said that God doesn’t want them to be unhappy so they seek scripture to support their intention?  This is evidence of a unfocused Christian.  For God hates divorce, God warns us to be cautious of making vows and that He will hold us to them.  If I am focused on my own happiness to the point where I look to God to justify my own pursuits that are inconsistent with His divine direction, then I have replaced God’s rightful position of worship in my life with my own self-service.  I have been that person who chose to serve himself above God and it never, I repeat “never” turns out well in the long run.  For self gratification is a temporary or sensory fulfillment measure of fleshly desire and by its nature lacks “focus” upon the eternal mind of Christ the King.

May He be praised for His unwavering concentration and focus upon our sanctification and well being.  Praise Jesus the King.